The Indian Empire: Its People, History and ProductsRoutledge, 5. nov. 2013 - 788 sider This Volume VII of eleven in a series on India: History, Economy and Society. Originally published in 1886, this book presents an account of India and its people, condensed from statistical surveys that initially were 128 volumes and 60,000 pages. Further shrunk into twelve volumes as the he Imperial Gazetteer of India, this single volume has the essence of the whole. |
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The Rivers as Highways and as Destroyers 2932 | 29 |
The Deccan the Gháts and their Passes 3538 | 35 |
British Burma its Geography and Products 41 | 41 |
The Population of India | 43 |
Underpeopled Provinces the immobile Indian Peasant | 47 |
The NonAryan Races | 53 |
The Kandhs Tribal Government Wars and Blood Revenge 60 | 60 |
Regulation and NonRegulation Districts | 435 |
The Land Settlement Survey and Settlement | 441 |
Extension of Tillage in Madras Reduction of Average Land | 447 |
The SaltTax Systems of Manufacture 453 | 453 |
Taxation under the Mughals and the British compared 459463 | 459 |
Portuguese Voyages and Supremacy in the East | 461 |
BalanceSheet of British India 465468 | 465 |
Education 472479 | 472 |
Crushed Tribes Gipsy Clans Predatory Tribes 71 | 71 |
The Aryans in Ancient India | 75 |
The RigVeda Widowburning unknown 7778 | 77 |
The Aryan Tribes organized into Kingdoms | 87 |
Brahman Supremacy established Bráhman Ideal Life 9497 | 94 |
Brahman Science and Grammar Pánini 100 ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Hindu Art of War | 110 |
Hindu Customary Law Perils of Codification 116118 | 116 |
The Rámáyana its Story and its Author Válmiki 122 | 122 |
The Hindu Novel Beast Stories 127 | 127 |
Buddhism in India | 132 |
Buddha the Spiritual Development of the Heroic Aryan Man 133 | 133 |
Political Life of Buddha his Opponents Devadatta 139 | 139 |
The Northern and Southern Buddhist Canons 147149 | 147 |
Buddhas Personality denied | 153 |
The Greeks in India | 163 |
Seleukos and Chandra Gupta 166 | 166 |
Ancient and Modern Greeks the Yavanas 172 | 172 |
Scythic Inroads into India | 174 |
Scythic Buddhism and Settlements in India 178 | 178 |
The Takshaks and Nágás 184186 | 185 |
CHAPTER VIII | 191 |
Plasticity and Rigidity of Caste | 197 |
Shrines common to Different Faiths | 215 |
Friendly Vishnu the Vishnu Purána | 227 |
Christianity in India | 229 |
The Seven Modern Vernaculars | 238 |
Native Rulers of Bengal 17071756 the Black Hole | 239 |
Parochial Organization of Portuguese India | 247 |
Firuz Shah Tughlaks Canals 13511388 A D | 285 |
Akbar the Great his Work in India 15601605 291297 | 291 |
Revenues of the Mughal Empire 15931761 299 | 299 |
Rebellion of Prince Aurangzeb and Deposition of Shah | 305 |
Aurangzebs Provinces and Revenues 310 | 310 |
Jesuit Colleges and Rural Settlements | 311 |
CHAPTER XII | 317 |
CHAPTER XIII | 325 |
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Downfall of the Portuguese their Possessions in 1881 | 363 |
4352 | 378 |
Battle of Plassey 1757 and its Results 381383 | 381 |
The Grant of the Diwání 1765 | 387 |
Second Mysore War | 394 |
Marquis of Hastings 18141823 400402 | 400 |
Lord Metcalfe 18351836 Liberty of the Press | 406 |
Lord Hardinge 18441848 the First Sikh War 410 | 410 |
Lord Dalhousies Work Extensions of Territory | 417 |
Queens Proclamation of November 1st 1858 423 | 423 |
Education Commission Abolition of Import Duties | 429 |
5374 | 431 |
The Vernacular Press Newspapers and Books 480481 | 480 |
75131 | 482 |
Wheat Millets Pulses Oilseeds Vegetables 486490 | 486 |
Jute Cultivation and Preparation Exports 494 | 494 |
Table of Crop Statistics Acreage | 501 |
Processes of Tea Cultivation and Manufacture 508 | 508 |
Model Farms the Problem of improved Husbandry 515517 | 515 |
The Forest Department 522 524528 | 522 |
Irrigation its Function in India 528 | 528 |
In Madras Mysore Central Provinces 535537 | 535 |
History of previous Famines 1769 to 1876 541 | 541 |
Assisted and Native State Railways 548 | 548 |
163173 | 555 |
Growth of Trade Quinquennial Table of Foreign Trade 561 | 561 |
Exports Raw Cotton Jute Rice Wheat 569572 | 569 |
Export of Cotton and Jute Manufactures 575 | 575 |
215 216 | 579 |
Effects of the Suez Canal on Indian Trade | 581 |
The Himalayan Trade Routes Nepál Tibet 587 | 587 |
Religious Fairs Village Markets | 593 |
174190 | 598 |
Native Industries Village Crafts | 599 |
Goldsmiths and Jewellers Work Precious Stones 605 | 605 |
Jute Mills Manufacture of Gunny 614 | 614 |
191228 | 618 |
The Four Great Coal Fields Future of Indian Coal | 622 |
Saltpetre Manufacture and Export of 623 | 623 |
CHAPTER XXII | 631 |
The Ráníganj Coal Seams | 637 |
Gangetic Plain Eastern Bengal Assam 643 | 643 |
Rainfall Returns 649 | 649 |
Wolf Fox Jackal Dog Hyena 654 | 654 |
Reptiles Loss of Life from Snakebite the Cobra | 660 |
Deathrate in India Average Duration of Life 666667 | 666 |
Tables of Birth and Death Rates 676679 | 675 |
Health of the Native Army Causes of Mortality 682684 | 682 |
Area Towns and Villages Houses Population | 689 |
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CHAPTER IX | 703 |
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